Clothes-washing device.



E. G. STUTH. CLOTHES WASHING DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED APR.14, 191s.

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EDWARD C. STUTH, OF MINNEAFOLIS,MINNESOTA.

CLOTHES-WASHING- DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 17, 1914.

Application filed April 14, 1913. Serial No. 760,881.

' devices and, to this end, it consists of the novel construction and arrangement of parts hereinafter described and defined in the claims. 3

In the accompanying drawings, which illustrate the invention, like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Referring to the drawings: Figure 1 is a longitudinal vertical section, taken on the line :0 m of Fig. 2; and Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view of the device.

The numeral 1 indicates a hollow conical head with an open base. This head 1 terminates, at its upper end, in an upwardly extending annular collar 2 and has a rolled lower edge. A main pipe 3, having an expanded intermediate portion affording a chamber a, is extended axially through the head 1, and its upper end is telescoped through the collar 2 and rigidly secured thereto by solder or otherwise. The lower end of the pipe 3 is open and terminates in the same plane with the rolled edge of the head 1. Brace rods 5 rigidly connect the depending end portion of the pipe 3 to the inner walls of the head 1. One end of an operating handle 6 is telescoped into the upper end of the main pipe 3 and secured therein by a rivet 7. A pair of axially alined lateral branch pipes S extend through the walls of the head 1, and their inner ends open into the main pipe 3 just below the lower end of the handle 6.

Oircumferentially spaced upright pipes 9, as shown, four in number, are secured to the inner walls of the head 1, and their upper ends are bent laterally inward and have communication with the upper end portion of the chamber, at. The lower ends of these pipes 9 are expanded to afford inverted cups 10, which increase the efficiency of the device.

.The operation of the improved device may be briefly stated as follows: The clothes to be washed are placed in atub of boiling soap suds and the improved device is worked up and down on the clothes. Under the downward stroke of the device, the air within the head 1 will be compressed at the upper portion thereof. The air within the pipes 3 and 9 will be forced out through the branch pipes 8 by the water, as the same enters the cups l0 and the lower end of the pipe 3, and a certain amount of the water will escape with the air. The chamber 1 will prevent the water from rising too fast within the pipe 3. During the compression of the air within the head 1, the air and water will also be forced up and around the outer walls of the head 1. This action of the the compressed air, which will form a vacuum in the upper end of the head 1, thus creating a suction that will draw the clothes next to the device up with it and separate them from the others, permitting the air and water to again thoroughly commingle with the same. The lateral branch pipes 8 must, of course, at all times be above the surface of the water.

The 'above described device, while extremely simple and of comparatively small cost to manufacture, has, in actual usage, been found highly elficient for the purpose had in view.

hat I claim is:

1. A clothes washing device comprising a hollow head with an open bottom, an operating handle secured to said head, a centrally located upright pipe extending through said head, said pipe being open at its lower end and having, at its upper end, communication with the atmosphere, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced pipes located around said centrally located pipe, said circumferentially spaced pipes being open at their lower ends and having their upper ends opening into said centrally located pipe, substantially as described.

2. A clothes washing device comprising a hollow conical head with an open bottom, a main pipe extending axially through said head and having an expanded intermediate portion affording a chamber, an operating having their upper ends opening into said 10 handle secured 1n the upper end of said chamber, substantially as described.

main pipe and closing the same, lateral In testimony whereof I aflix my signature branch pipeslhaving their inper ends openin presence of two Witnesses.

in into saic main pi e anc havin their order ends extended through the Walls of EDWARD STUTH said head, circumferentiaiiy spaced branch Vitnesses:

pipes secured to the inner Walls of said head EDITH E. HANNA,

and having expanded lower open ends and HARRY D. KILGORE.

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